December 3

December 3, 2012 Rosenfeld News by Tina Wolfe

            Many people in the area have been down with the stomach flu and the entire family gets sick. We haven’t had it yet, knock on wood, but I do have laryngitis so it’s a good thing I can type this and send via e-mail, no talking needed. We haven’t finished Christmas shopping and I hope to get it done this week but it will depend on the road conditions. Ice scares me and it has been very mild, too mild for my liking which always makes for icy roads. With the rain we’ve had most of the snow has disappeared, here’s hoping we get a good dump before Christmas.

Thoughts and prayers

            The Rosenfeld community would like to send condolences to the Frank and Brenda Braun family. Frank’s mother, Sarah Braun passed away on Monday, Nov. 26 at the age of 93. She was formerly of the Horndean area but currently a resident at Eastview Place in Altona. She was predeceased by her husband P.F. Braun and leaves behind three sons and their families. The funeral took place on Saturday, Dec. 1 at the South Park MB Church in Altona with burial at the Grossweide Cemetery.

Bantam Hockey Tournament

            Sore throat and all, who can miss the grandson’s hockey games, so off we went to Winkler to cheer on the team. The first team the Altona Bantams played against on Thursday, Nov. 29 was the Winkler team and the kids played hard but lost 3 – 0. The second game was played Saturday, Dec. 1 in Plum Coulee. against a team from Gimli. It was a very physical game with one of our guys getting injured. After that incident the Altona team just couldn’t get it together and lost 5 – 0. The third game was played Sunday morning against Dauphin. We had already heard rumours about this team and the story was confirmed within a few minutes of the game. The Gimli team was mild compared to these guys. Bodies were flying everywhere until one of them got a 4 minute penalty and a game misconduct. Even with all that happening, Dauphin won 8 – 1.   Though the Altona team didn’t win any games they sure worked up a sweat. When speaking to one of the parents we learned that Dauphin had stacked their team with kids from their AAA team. I find this an unfair way of playing tournaments due to the fact that the regular players put in a lot of practice and should get to play all the games not sit on the bench and watch.

Stay and Play

The Stay and Play program has been held for the past nine weeks and we have enjoyed playing, singing, reading stories, making crafts and eating snacks. We are having a break for the month of December and will resume the program on Tuesday, Jan. 8. All parents with preschool children are welcome to drop in for the entire two hours or just for whatever time works for them. It is held at the Rosenfeld School from 9:30 – 11:30 a.m. every Tuesday.

School update

The Grade 5 and 6 students will be curling in Altona On Dec. 4, 6, 7, 11 and13. Will there be any up and coming pros in this group?

The Rosenfeld School Christmas Concert will be held Wednesday, Dec 19 with an afternoon performance at 1:00 and another at 6:30 p.m.

On Thursday, Dec. 20 the Rosenfeld Choir will be caroling at Eastview Place at 10:00 a.m.

Christmas break begins December 24 and the kids are out until Monday, Jan.7, 2013.

Photo taken by Tina Wolfe. Caption suggestion –

The children enjoy the bean bags in the Rosenfeld School library during the morning of Stay and Play.